The man accused of causing the death of Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere has been found guilty by the Randburg Magistrate's Court. ...
The man accused of causing the death of Top Billing
presenter Simba Mhere has been found guilty by the Randburg Magistrate's Court.
Magistrate David Mahango on Wednesday found that Preshalin
Naidoo's version that the car he was driving on the morning of the incident had
a mechanical failure was improbable.
"The court finds that the version of the accused that
it was a mechanical defect that caused the accident‚ is far-fetched and
improbable‚" Mahango said.
He said the 2015 incident was instead caused by human
error. The court rejected testimony by the defence's accident reconstruction
expert Stanley Bezuidenhout‚ who was present in court throughout the trial.
"Although the court accepts that Mr Bezuidenhout is an
expert‚ the court has a problem with his evidence‚" Mahango said.
"He was at all material times present in court. The
question the court is asking is: what value should it attach to his report and
whether it is enough?"
Bezuidenhout had earlier testified that speed was not the
cause of the accident and that it was a result of a missing nut in the
right-front suspension of Naidoo's vehicle.
Mahango found Mhere's father Joseph's evidence to be
credible. He described him as a reliable witness. Times
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